On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 04:48:53PM -0500, Shawn Landden wrote: > When I send patches I want them to have lots of context, but when just > looking at a diff, I can always open the file for context. Seems like a reasonable thing to want. You can already use "git format-patch -U20 ...". The usual advice for putting that in config is to define an alias wit your preferred option. I don't think it would be too big a problem for format-patch to learn some options to configure its diffs. We already have some options in format.* for various things. -Peff
